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FOURTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("fourth" is a kind of...):
interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of four equal parts
Example:
a quarter of a pound
Synonyms:
fourth; fourth part; one-fourth; one-quarter; quarter; quartern; twenty-five percent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("fourth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Following the third position; number four in a countable series
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("fourth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
Example:
the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present
Synonyms:
4th; fourth; quaternary
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the fourth place
Example:
fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month
Synonyms:
fourth; fourthly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
fourth (coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude)
Context examples:
One of the three pairs in the fourth group (or group D) of human chromosomes according to the current classification for humans.
(Chromosome 15, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
In children it is most common in the lateral ventricles and in adults it tends to arise in the fourth ventricle.
(Choroid Plexus Papilloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A villous structure of tangled masses of BLOOD VESSELS contained within the third, lateral, and fourth ventricles of the BRAIN.
(Choroid plexus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Blood vessels forming villous structures in the third, fourth, and lateral ventricles of the brain.
(Choroid plexus, NCI Thesaurus)
A condyloid synovial joint within the fourth digit of the foot connecting metatarsal with the proximal phalanx.
(Metatarsophalangeal Joint 4, NCI Thesaurus)
A highly modified, fourth generation linear decapeptide with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH or LHRH) antagonizing properties.
(Ozarelix, NCI Thesaurus)
It is well up to the fourth mark.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One was his own young brother, Captain Barrington; another was his cousin, Sir Lothian Hume; Sir Charles Tregellis, my uncle, was the third; and Lord Avon the fourth.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poor Victor was a dead man on the fourth day—a strong, hearty young fellow.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, fourth, there's this here boy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
